Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/49874 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 544
Publisher: 
The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics, Baltimore, MD
Abstract: 
In the context of an infinitely repeated capacity-constrained price game, we endogenize the composition of a cartel when .rms are heterogeneous in their capacities. When .rms are sufficiently patient, there exists a stable cartel involving the largest .rms. A .rm with sufficiently small capacity is not a member of any stable cartel. When a cartel is not all-inclusive, colluding firms set a price that serves as an umbrella with non-cartel members pricing below it and producing at capacity. Contrary to previous work, our results suggest that the most severe coordinated e¡èects may come from mergers involving moderate-sized firms, rather than the largest or smallest firms.
Subjects: 
Collusion
Cartel Size
JEL: 
L1
L4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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